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Polity Europe

Wetzlar

Attested 1815 CE

City in Hesse, Germany

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Wetzlar on Wikipedia.

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Wetzlar appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Trade route · Europe

Atlantic Triangular Trade

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Conflict · Europe

Napoleonic Wars

1803 CE – 1815 CE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Sweden

Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Denmark

Founded 800 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1815 CE and 1815 CE.

1815 CE Battle of Waterloo 1815 CE Mfecane (The Crushing)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Musket Wars Conflict · Oceania 1807 CE – 1845 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE John Adams Figure · America 1735 CE – 1826 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing

Image credits 9 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

Wetzlar Krusto · CC BY 2.0 de
Plitvice Lakes National Park Zysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922) User:Orwellianist · Public domain
Triangular trade SimonP at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Napoleonic Wars Ruedi33a · CC BY-SA 4.0
Giant's Causeway code poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
Flag of Sweden Jon Harald Søby and others. · Public domain
Danube Delta European Space Agency · Attribution
Flag of Denmark Madden and others · Public domain